Title These potatoes look like humans : the contested future of land, home and death in South Africa / uMbuso weNkosi

Published Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 172 pages) : illustrations, map Contents Prologue: Emazambaneni: the land of terror -- The spectre of the human potato -- Whose eyes are looking at history? -- Bethal, the House of God -- Violence: the white farmers' fears erupt -- These eyes are looking for a home -- Bethal today -- Our eschatological future Summary These Potatoes Look Like Humans critiques the narrow materialist and legalistic arguments about the land question to recognise that, for most Black South Africans, the meanings of land and dispossession are linked with spirituality and being.-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes uMbuso weNkosi is a lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Pretoria Print version record Subject Agricultural laborers -- Violence against -- South Africa -- Bethal Potato growers -- Violence against -- South Africa -- Bethal Black people -- South Africa -- Social conditions Land tenure -- South Africa Black people -- Social conditions Land tenure Race relations SUBJECT South Africa -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125494 Subject South Africa South Africa -- Bethal Form Electronic book ISBN 9781776148424 1776148428 9781776148431 1776148436

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